“Questions of scale are central to Rigoni’s displaced earthwork. The vast impact of this small beetle is hard to comprehend. Similarly, the dichotomy between natural cycles or phenomena and the consequences of monocultures exerted by symmetrically planted forests remains complicated to grasp. That is the nature of what philosopher Timothy Morton describes as hyperobjects: “Hyperobjects provoke irreductionist thinking, that is, they present us with scalar dilemmas in which ontotheological statements about which thing is most real (ecosystem, world, environment, or conversely individual) become impossible.” The interconnected dynamics of human and non-human agents at the heart of the ecological crisis demands a more complex and irreducible understanding of scale.” Excerpt from an essay on Stefania Rigoni by Emile Rubino